Postal Caricature showng the postie on horeback attributed
in the only other copy I can faind to Neel who wrote an early travel
treatise in 1753. Initiatled to the base line with n.l. simple line
etching with later but early colour. Light overall toning to cream from
white , mounted rare £150 inc delivery
The Midshipman's Birth / Berth
Published by I. W. Laird, 1, Leadenhall Stt. 1841. Image 29.5 x 45.5 cm
hand coloured mezzotintssome age toning and staining to the legend
below.The setting below deck shows the off-duty activities of young
midshipmen and other men in their mess cramped between decks. At
present framed ( modern) in a wash lined mount £160 inc delivery
British Soldiers
Drowning Care.
Published 20th Novr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle No. 53 Fleet Street
London.Mezzotint, image 250 x 290mm. Trimmed at bottom, losing the text
of a
song. The verse accompanying the image reads:
How stands the glass around,
For shame, you take no care, my boys,
How stands the glass around!
Let wine and mirth abound,
The trumphets sound,
The colours they are flying boys,
To fight, kill, or wound;
May we be found
Content with our hard fate, my boys,
On the cold ground.
Why, soldiers, why,
Should we be melancholy, boys!
Why, soldiers, why,
Whose business is to die!
What fighting! Fie!
Hang care, drink round, be merry, boy,
Tis he, you, or I, Cold, hot, wet, or dry,
We're always bound to follow, boys,
And scorn to fly. It is but in vain,
I mean not to upbraid you, boys,
It is but in vain,
For soldiers to complain;
The next campaign,
All in the field of battle, boys,
Perhaps we may be slain,
But should we remain,
A bottle and kind landlady
Cures all our pain.
Social satire; officers in a tent around a table drink red wine, or
punch from a bowl, smoke pipes and sing; one has his arm in a sling,
another waves his hat, in the background are mounted soldiers and the
British flag, and on the floor is a cannon and shot. £135.00 Old
colour old frame looks all original light loose joint bottom left
add glue or tack !
Fopp/ Dandy with a hurdy Gurdy and empty pockets begging for
money. . . . hedge funders of 1790s?
,Woodward del Cruikshank
sculp
. Etching with hand colouring London
Pubd: by
Allen & West 15 Paternoster Row, October 8, 1796 saac
Cruikshank [English Illustrator, ca.1756-1811] ; George Moutard
WOODWARD (c.1760-1809)An amateur watercolourist and caricaturist,
George Moutard Woodward arrived in London in 1792. From around 1794
to 1807 he drew numerous caricaturesmainly engraved by Isaac
Cruikshank. Many designs were also etched by his
friend
anddrinking companion, Thomas Rowlandson. Known as ‘Mustard
George’,
Woodward was the designer of “General
Discontent” and is
often credited with the invention of the modern comic strip. His
style of life won in the end and ‘Mustard
George’ died in a
London tavern in 1809.. £120 scarce mounted etc incl
.Holding a Candle to The Devil
By Sharpshooter . . published by J Chappell, Royal Exchange
April 2 1828 . A rare caricature Unusually full page superb
full margins no defects other than slight browning to the page
edges . This is a quotation from an early English Proverb 'It's
good sometimes to hold a candle to the Devil'.. . . . . .Holding a
candle to the devil is assisting in a bad cause, an evil matter.
A. Sharpshooter like some other cartoonists of the
period, disguising his real name! Actually John Phillips pseudonym
A.Sharpshooter £180 inc
THE KING’S EVIL
ANONYMOUS. The Kings Evil. A Recipe. (S.W.
Fores.) 1786,
28 Sept.Engraving; . Image . 9¾”
x 7¾”. £135
The Prince of Wales
stands, arms folded, with Mrs
Fitzherbert sitting behind him, her legs immodestly visible beneath
the table. Two pistols point at the Prince’s head:
‘A Recipe’. On
the Prince’s marriage to Mrs. Fitzherbert.framed and glazed
inc
A Cheltenham Exquisite in Full Dress
Portrait of Mr Mackay ( anon ) 32 x
22 cm image with older
hand colour .Mounted etc Published 1819 by N.Chazer & Co Lithog
of 33 Fleet Street, London. rare item one of a pair with The
Cheltenham Dandy £105
How ar'ye for Fish! . .. a soal . . whiting.
. haddock ..skait.
.a.. . a
Drawn by M.E. published by Thomas
Mclean at 33 haymarket ,
London . With older hand colour .Mounted etc c 1828.Gentleman
reading a menu in a tavern £115. This is not available in the
BM
archives and as an advert for Charles Wrights Champagne is included
upon the back wall it may have been specially commissioned as an
advertisement.
Trepanning
with older hand colour .Mounted etc
Published by
G.Humphrey, 27 St James Street, June 1821 £85
Holloo-Thom-ass-there's two Tea's anda
brandu and a worter a
bolting over the palings
Drawn by M.E. puclished by Thomas
Mclean at 26 haymarket ,
London . With older hand colour .Mounted etc c 1828.Cut to image
and mounted separately as the title and image behind the mount (
sneakily done) £55 still rare
McLean's Monthly sheet of Caricatures No 26
published by Thomas Mclean at 33
haymarket , London . With
older hand colour .Mounted etc c 1833.£45
Symptoms of a View on Bagshot Heath
by Henry Alken from "Symptoms of
Being amused" 1822 to 1827
published by Thomas Mclean at 33 haymarket , London . With older
hand colour .Mounted etc c £45
